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卢西亚恩是一位健康状况每况愈下的戏剧演员。他在舞台上忘词，日常生活中感到困惑和格格不入。最终，他决定结束自己的演艺生涯，不久后搬进了一家养老院。在这个新环境里，这位年迈的老人深深怀念他已故的妻子。他开始做一些似乎变得真实的噩梦。在其中一个梦境中，他发现了一条通往一个充满魔幻色彩的世界的通道，这个世界与他的剧院有着迷惑性的相似之处。 卢西亚恩开始在两个平行的维度中生活——现实生活和童话世界，这两个世界逐渐相互依存并交织在一起。他对这个虚构世界的沉浸最终引向了一个出人意料的结局。这是一个关于生命流逝的苦乐参半的论述。卢西亚恩创造的童话世界与其说是对死亡的隐喻，不如说是对死亡即将到来的象征性和解。。Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal. Part 1: Ruling by the Book Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum. Part 2: What a King Should Know Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia. Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance. （转自mvgroup论坛）。